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Armed police hunting an escaped prisoner yesterday sealed off woodland after an off-duty officer reported seeing him. Lee Cyrus absconded from prison in England and it is understood that police want to speak to him about two brutal assaults in Scotland.

A helicopter circled the 18th-century tower on Kinnoull Hill overlooking Perth yesterday afternoon, while sniffer dogs and about 30 officers, including an armed response team, scoured the woods below.

A “suspicious” male was spotted near the A90, which runs from Perth to Dundee, at around 7.20am, but the officer lost sight of the man when he ran into woods